privignus

Latin

Etymology

By surface analysis, prīvus +‎ -gnus, literally “born separately”. The reflex -ignus instead of the expected *prīvognus is to be explained by analogy of bigno- (“twin”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /priːˈu̯iɡ.nus/, [priːˈu̯ɪŋnʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /priˈviɲ.ɲus/, [priˈviɲːus]

Noun

prīvignus m (genitive prīvignī); second declension

stepson

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prīvignus	prīvignī
genitive	prīvignī	prīvignōrum
dative	prīvignō	prīvignīs
accusative	prīvignum	prīvignōs
ablative	prīvignō	prīvignīs
vocative	prīvigne	prīvignī

Related terms

prīvigna

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gignō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 261

“privignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“privignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
privignus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
privignus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gignō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 261

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